Allan Sekula: Edit Nine

Friday, October 16, 2009 - Sunday, January 3, 2010

Allan Sekula is a photographer, writer, filmmaker and
faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
commissioned Sekula to create Edit
Nine, an outdoor installation in conjunction with its 2008
exhibition, This Side of Paradise. He
describes the project as a “prose poem in pictures,” a meditation on the last
two decades of the life of L.A. The sequence of more than 20 outdoor,
large-scale photographs is dedicated to the memory of writer and labor activist
Louis Adamic, who emigrated from Slovenia to the U.S. during World War I and is
best known for his autobiography Laughing
inthe Jungle (1932).
For AGENCY, Sekula adds two photographs
specifically chosen for the grounds of Montalvo. As visitors wander around
the art center, gardens and park pathways, the meaning of the pictures
gradually reveal themselves.